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We Had Good Times Too
Mr. Ford describes the more pleasurable aspects of life behind the lines.
You Can’t Let Your Country Down.
Mr. Ford offers a message to youth about duty and patriotism.
Fear in battle
Mr. Ford describes his first experience in the lines at Vimy Ridge and discusses the fear that he and others felt during battle conditions.
They Didn’t Realize the Dangers.
Mr. Ford describes his decision to enlist and its impact on his parents.
I thought it was a great thing!
Mr. Sutherland describes being advised by his sergeant to shoot less accurately lest he be chosen for sniper duty; all snipers were hated and executed if captured.
That was a long trip smelling that.
Mr. Sutherland describes being forced at bayonet point to board a reeking troop ship which had been a cattle boat, a lengthy voyage to England, and being fired on by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland.
Artillery attack on German Soldiers
Mr. Schreyer talks about his first face to face encounter with German soldiers who he had to transport to POW centres after a fierce artillery barrage in Germany.
Camouflage lessons came in handy
Mr. Savage reminisces about his First World War experience and his encounter with a Second World War returnee whom he had trained for battle.
Escaping under the barbed wire.
Mr. Savage describes his barbed wire repair crew coming under machine gun attack, and his efforts to get his crew back to the safety of their trench.
He was crying, scared to death!
Mr. Savage describes the circumstances of his being wounded during a barrage at Albert, and being treated in the Casualty Clearing Station.
The shell had torn his hip away.
Mr. Copp describes taking Regina Trench, including the loss of a close friend. In poignant detail he describes sending his friend’s mother a letter containing her son’s ring.
I Don’t Consider I was Very Patriotic
Mr. Barron reflects on Remembrance Day and the fact that it wasn’t necessarily patriotism which induced him to enlist.
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